Aang was lost. He stared blankly at the supreme expanse of nothingness before him. He was just in the middle of opening the largest chest in One Piece next to a bloodied up Monkey D. Luffy. This time he ended up waking up to the straw hat crew. Lively bunch those guys, with two total knockout babes. They had just got done muscling through ten thousand other crews as the location of One Piece was made public knowledge. At the end… Only Luffy and him were left. But it was a trap. The Marines had given a false treasure hunt, and like waves to the shore every pirate crew worth their salt made a beeline for it. They let the pirates weed themselves out and it was ruthless. With the ultimate treasure so close, alliances were broken and trust betrayed. They truly were cut throat pirates in the most purest sense. Only the straw hat crew had stayed loyal to each other, but it was this loyalty that resulted in sacrifices, and there only being the two left. Beaten and tired, Luffy was no match against the generals when they came to finish off whoever had survived the frenzy. Seeing his friends all die before him once again, was too much to bear. Aang triggered the Brama state, effectively eliminate that realitys time-space. So there he was, tired tear stains, contemplating whether or not to initiate creation again. With a casual shrug, he reasoned it is better to do something than nothing, and activated the One state to spur matter into existence. This would be the 1000th time he's done this since he destroyed his own time-space in a fit of grief. "I wonder what kind of form life will take this time around…". And with that, he shut his eyes to enter stasis until someone came to wake him up.
"Then i hereby declare the fourth great shinobi war!".
This was the first thing Wang woke up to. A bit disoriented he tried to get up, only to find himself bound by chains. He didn't care that he was bound, and decided that this time around he would try not using all his powers. Swiftly entering the avatar state, he blocked his celestial chi so that he could not access his atomic or chronos bending. Looking around in his mind he noted that it was still void of anyone else. No matter. Satisfied that he wouldn't have it so easy this time around, he came back to his body just in time to notice a swirl appear right in front of him out of nowhere.
'Spontaneous black hole? Haven't seen that since the Nazi time frame' he idly muses.
He gazed on, casually craning his neck up to see a man with an orange whirly mask and a black cloak with red clouds on it.
'So I'm guessing this time frame doesn't have a good fashion sense' he deadpanned mentally.
It was at this point that the man spoke, his voice deep and earth shaking.
"I see you have awakened. Good. Now as I am the one who was here when you awoke, as the prophecy states I am your master! Serve me, oh great ice king!".
Aang stared at the man for a long while. So much so, he could see the mans skinny arms start shaking from leaving them in the skyward position he had thrown them in during his dramatic speech. Then all at once Aang cracked a smile, metal bended the long chains to unhinge each other, and floated slightly off the ground for dramatic effect. He even blood bended his vocal cords to alter his voice into one even deeper than the mans had been.
"Mortal! You dare ask this god's loyalty without proper tribute! I should shatter you, along with this whole plane of existence!".
The man, clearly unaware he needed any kind of "tribute" promptly started fidgeting nervously and shuffling his feet.
"Your grace, I was unaware as the prophecy spoke not of needing tributes to appease you. At the moment, we are in my own personal space and time. I can however transport you to a battle being fought between my worlds strongest warriors. They should prove a satisfying challenge, even for you."
Aang held back the laughter bubbling from his throat.
"Fool! There's none other than Amaterasu herself that could make me even bat an eyelash! But, I in all of my glory shall accept your tribute. We will discuss my services after. Now take me!"
With a grin Aang could feel through the mask, the man bowed and transported him away...right into the path of a beam of lightning. Without even thinking Aang pointed his finger in a random direction, letting the bolt strike his chest, and redirecting it through his body and out his finger. The wall it rammed into was obliterated. The loud crashing sound stopped the fighting, and Aang got a chance to survey the battlefield. There was a large black man, a hulking figure missing an arm and covered in lightning. Beside him were another black man and a white man as well, both in similar attire on his flanks. Their chi aang could sense was jittery like lightning but not evil. Definitely not pure though. Next he noticed a fine looking redhead with a young man and older man on her flanks, all standing a little ways off. They all had different chis, the woman feeling like a soldering volcano ready to explode at any moment. Again not pure, but far from evil. Though more tainted than the black mans.
Then his eyes landed on a gruffy old man with a huge nose and of short stature. He had nobody next to him, though aang felt two Chi's underground next to him. By far this old mans chi was rip with regrets and good intentions gone wrong, hidden behind a tough unflinching will. Still not evil though.
'So where is this flood of dark chi coming from..' Aang thought to himself.
It was when he had to duck below a sword trying to decapitate him that he found it. Looking up to see his would-be killer, he saw a man whose hair vaguely resembled a ducks buttocks, with what seemed to be pink eye of some sort and a chi overbearingly dark. But, oddly enough, he still did not sense any true evil. Deciding he had enough information, and noticing the masked man from earlier perched on the dark corner of a wall no doubt wanting to see what he could do, he decided to move things along.
"Humans! Your lives are forfeit!" After making a mental note to stick with just waterbending to keep up appearances, he engaged the group.
"Ha! My life! I am an uchiha! The elite! I'll kill you all!" The newly named Uchiha yelled out.
The Uchiha lounged forward with his hand encased in lightning, then lashed his hand out causing an arc of it to span out. Aang easily jumped over it, and countered with a thin concentrated stream of water that would have gave the uchiha a lobotomy, but instead found air and then stone, digging for several miles.
'So not just ice but water as a whole huh...and out of nowhere as well..' The masked man thought to himself as he watched.
Sasuke landed on his feet and quickly closed the distance. Aang bobs weaves and ducks under and about every swing kick and swipe. With mounting frustration, the duck head yells "Amaterasu!" , engulfing Aang in fire black and true that he remembers well. Smirking, the Uchiha turns his back and is about to re engage the Black Man when he hears something he shouldn't. Laughter. Aangs bitter and mirthless laughter softly fills everyone's ears.
"Amaterasu...i don't know how you got her flames, but they could never harm me. She loved me so much even the sun dared not harm me. And yet you use her flames. Such an abomination!"
In a rage, Aang's eyes glow vibrant white, and he starts floating off the ground. With a sway of his hand, the Uchiha is brought down to his knees. Unable to move, he starts cursing and yelling about how impossible it is to be defeated. "You poor child of dust, allow me to give you rest" Aang spoke, genuine pity in his voice. He could see the pain and hurt stitched into this boy's heart. "Become All Again" and with that said, Aang bended all the liquid in the Uchihas body down to the moisture in his bone marrow. Seconds later, dry skin flaked off and bone was rendered unto dusk. There was nothing left of the uchiha. "NOOOOOOO!" The masked man bellowed, course with anger he instantly teleported himself and aang away.
Finding himself in a dark cave Aang awaited his would be master.
"Oh great one, how you burden my cause! The one you killed was the one person I wish you have not. He was instrumental to having the fruits of my labor be bared. I needed an extra pair of sharingan to help control the juubi! Now i have no way to do so.."
At some point in his rant The masked man was talking more to himself than anything. But that was fine, as Aang was positively distracted.
'The juubi exists in this existence as well?! I thought I had seen the last of it when…' Lost in his thoughts, he didn't notice the masked man yelling his name.
Fed up, the man in the orange mask shoved Aang. On reflex Aang flicked his wrist towards the man, sending a wave of heat that vaporized the man, clothes and all.
"Oops...oh well, he was a bad guy anyway. So let's see the main character in this world iiiiiisssss…...Naru..to...Uzimaki? Fish cake? Oh boy the busting of balls are gone be great!"
With that, Aang walked calmly away from the dark cave the masked man had teleported them to.
Walking for hours Aang found himself drawn to a snow cover field. In it was the dark skinned man from earlier and a blond whose face was in the snow, bowing.
'So this is Naruto? Humble if nothing else I suppose'.
That's when Aang felt a heavy pressure from within said blonde. 'My my, what a malicious kitten.'
He then saw the larger of the two blondes begin to walk away, looking unimpressed. " A ninja does not bow!".
Aang thought now would be a good time to make himself known, if for no other reason than to see what it would do.
"I for one think humbleness is a respectable trait" Aang said as he came into the clearing.
Too prideful to admit that he was caught off guard, the hunk of a man kept an impasse face on while the others present jumped back into a defensive position.
"Who the heck are you!?" Naruto asked.
Smiling at Naruto's energy, Aang felt the dark man's gaze upon him. "You..you're the one who was at the summit. You took my kill! That Uchiha scum was mine to kill!"
Naruto's head snapped at the dark man as he finished speaking. "S-stole your kill? I thought Sasuke got away?" Naruto stuttered.
"No child, after taking my arm, that little shits life was property of me, Ay the fourth Raikage! But this mysterious man dissolved him with a flick of the wrist. Now." Ay said, now shifting his gaze on Aang. "Who are you, and what village are you from?! I don't see a headband on you."
Aang could sense the deep regret and rage building within Naruto. He hadn't known Sasuke meant something to Naruto. He wondered what effect him intervention would have on this world's hero. He could feel the pressure inside of Naruto rising up, like bubbles of lava soon to explode. Seeing his role in this world made clear before him, Aang resigned himself to it.
"The man who declared war on you was but my pawn. You ask who I am?" He paused for dramatic effect, before causing the snow around them to flutter around and whip violently. " I am the being foretold. I am the bringer of death and ruin. I am the Ice King, and I am here to encase the world in an eternal darkness, ending it in bitter cold. I will snuff out all warmth of Hope and drown all in despair!" He finished, high above them now, voice booming. With that, he vanished in a flair of light.
After more than a few moments of taking it all in, Ay spoke up. "So it's true. The prophecy was true. I can't believe it.."
Naruto still couldn't believe Sasuke was gone. What was he going to tell Sakura? Oh God, how could he possibly face her. Numb to the world around him, no longer in the presence of the object of his hate, Naruto trugged away from the group of ninja.
"Kakashi-sensei I..I need to be alone right now" he said as he disappeared from view.
Ay was the first to speak up. "Kakashi..figure out where your Hokage is, and tell him we need to have another summit. If the Ice King has truly come...even I know it'll take everything we've got to prevail against him." Ay turned on his heel, heading back to the damaged venue of the meeting they all just hand. Kakashi, with the thoughts of his recently dead student, the coming of the Ice King, and how his students would be affected by this all, just stood there motionless for quite some time. His white helped him blend into the cold snow.